“Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend / Which is the mightier.Act IV, Scene 1 · Gertrude · ★★★★☆→
“But like the owner of a foul disease, / To keep it from divulging, let it feed / Even on the pith of life.Act IV, Scene 1 · Claudius · ★★★★☆→
“Ay, sir; that soaks up the King's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the King best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again.Act IV, Scene 2 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.Act IV, Scene 3 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.Act IV, Scene 3 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“How stand I then, / That have a father kill’d, a mother stain’d, / Excitements of my reason and my blood, / And let all sleep, while to my shame I see / The imminent death of twenty thousand men / That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, / Go to their graves like beds,Act IV, Scene 4 · Hamlet · ★★★★☆→
“To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation.Act IV, Scene 5 · Laertes · ★★★★☆→
